Ana Enriqueta Terán

Ana Enriqueta Terán is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been translated into English, giving at best a diluted impression of a uniquely intense imagination.

 This bilingual edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It invites readers to enter Terán's world--a world at once strongly Venezuelan and universally human, imbued with great beauty, sardonic humor, pitiless compassion, lucid wisdom, and joyful affirmation.

 Selected from several volumes of Terán's work, these poems span half a century of composition and show an extraordinary range in both form and substance. Some are written in closed forms, some in free verse. Some are carefully evocative representations of the landscapes and cityscapes that have nourished the poet's intelligence and imagination. Others are dramatic character studies. All are infused with Terán's rare sensibility and realized through language that manages to be at once graceful, urgent, and explosive. This volume is a treasure for all lovers of poetry.

 Deal Struck with Happiness
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 How much sweetness to make right the night
 and this clutch of anemones
 near thin smooth consoling stones,
 stones havens of southern weather.
 Of a woman who watches Cepheids quaver
 among lightbursting mangroves.
 Of a woman who offers cats-eyes and clematis
 only, Islands, for the sake of setting right
 her deal struck with happiness.

Princeton University Press

The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán

Marcel Smith

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